nathan blackmer |
Sharoth wrote:Anytime tiag... ~rereads~ Oops! Sorry! Anytime taig!I was all set to make a tiag alias, and I saw that someone already took it!
I just realized Sebastian had an old Eric Mona lookalike alias. That made me laugh so hard.
I'm glad you're going to be near your family, Taig. I don't think I'd handle having to move away from my loved ones too well.
Mike Welham Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012 |
Moff Rimmer |
So my five-year-old child says to me this morning...
"Dad. You got to see on my pillow." As he's relaxing on the living room couch. He threw up in the middle of the night. Not a fun way to start off the morning. And I really feel like "Worst Dad of the Year" since he was sleeping in it for much of the night.
taig RPG Superstar 2012 |
taig wrote:Sharoth wrote:Anytime tiag... ~rereads~ Oops! Sorry! Anytime taig!I was all set to make a tiag alias, and I saw that someone already took it!I just realized Sebastian had an old Eric Mona lookalike alias. That made me laugh so hard.
I'm glad you're going to be near your family, Taig. I don't think I'd handle having to move away from my loved ones too well.
Unfortunately, for the short-term I'll be *further* from my family. Oddly, though, my wife likes Atlanta more than Charlotte, so I think she'll figure out a way to get down there earlier rather than later. That just leaves my son up in Kernersville, NC, to finish his senior year, which will be good and bad for him.
nathan blackmer |
nathan blackmer wrote:taig wrote:Sharoth wrote:Anytime tiag... ~rereads~ Oops! Sorry! Anytime taig!I was all set to make a tiag alias, and I saw that someone already took it!I just realized Sebastian had an old Eric Mona lookalike alias. That made me laugh so hard.
I'm glad you're going to be near your family, Taig. I don't think I'd handle having to move away from my loved ones too well.
Unfortunately, for the short-term I'll be *further* from my family. Oddly, though, my wife likes Atlanta more than Charlotte, so I think she'll figure out a way to get down there earlier rather than later. That just leaves my son up in Kernersville, NC, to finish his senior year, which will be good and bad for him.
Atlanta's a happenin' area. Hopefully it doesn't take too long. Yeah moving him in Senior Year would be rugged. It also leaves him in an ideal situation for mischief making.
nathan blackmer |
Pudstuffin wrote:Dangerous game.Alderyk, King of the Fallarin wrote:Dire Rhea wrote:I miss the thread of the birds.Mairkurion {tm} wrote:Oh...you said LAME aliases. Never mind.Brawk!Always time for a new one.
Kaw.
Had to be done. I had to fight down the almost undeniable urge to make Treppa-dation an alias after the last post.
Freehold DM |
Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:Video directions are the worst. Everyone is smiling and sipping coffee and the places are immaculately clean and all the parts go together with no problem and everything is perfect. That's not how my life works.I hate those f@~~ers from the Lowe's Home Improvement Videos.
"Oh, replacing a kitchen faucet....is EASY! Taking the old one out is the hardest part! It's a easy job."
Your cave below the sink looks totally different than mine. Mine was put in by a drunk lemur on crystal meth. BLERRG!!! AND now I'm adding to the horror of the Laboratory of Mr. Feebs.....my excuse is that I'm not a plumber......what's yours, Lemur boy?!?!
Almost done though.
The last time I watched one, I almost put my fist through the monitor.
Freehold DM |
Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:You should move up to Missouri. Our grass is green year round.Don't get me started on lawn chymicules.
BLARG!!!!And why is everybody in Texas so stoked to do lawn work? It SHOULD be brown by July. It's nature, man.
Met my first g/f up at Stephens in Missouri. T'was nice.
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM |
Freehold DM |
taig wrote:** spoiler omitted **
When I accept an offer, there is generally no counter offer I will accept - because they are aware I was looking, and ready to leave. And I assume they will pay to keep me because they think that they will need more than two weeks to replace me, and they would rather lose me on their terms...nevermind I'm then without any job opportunities. Because that's not their problem.
I might be cynical and jaded, though. :(
No, I fully endorse this- NEVER take a counter-offer. In my experience, there is usually some wriggling in the details saying that you will not leave the position until a set date, which may or may not be legal nowadays.
Freehold DM |
taig wrote:Jess Door wrote:taig wrote:** spoiler omitted **
When I accept an offer, there is generally no counter offer I will accept - because they are aware I was looking, and ready to leave. And I assume they will pay to keep me because they think that they will need more than two weeks to replace me, and they would rather lose me on their terms...nevermind I'm then without any job opportunities. Because that's not their problem.
I might be cynical and jaded, though. :(
I understand that. I took a counteroffer once, and I regretted it, but at that time I wanted to leave the company and I really should have just walked away.
In this situation, I am contracting, and I had communicated my desire to go full time, and my boss was searching for ways to make that happen. I think he thought he had more time, since my 12-month contract (which was up at the end of May) was extremely likely to get renewed for 6 months. I didn't communicate anything to my boss about looking until I turned in my notice, which is how I would have approached things if I was already full-time.
Bleh.
Yeah, my only experience with a similar situation was with a boss that was repeatedly hiring people, only to fire them months later to hire personal friends. I was useful to the company - I had training and knowledge no one else had, and was doing some intense customer facing work at the moment - but I was under no illusion that my position was stable.
The owner was an excellent salesman. Not necessarily a good businessman, but his ability to talk people into things let him limp along despite some crazy decistions (let's focus on the $2000 customer to the detriment of the $500,000 customer!).
Again, in my experience, good salesman very rarely equals good businessman.
Mairkurion {tm} |
Jess Door wrote:No, I fully endorse this- NEVER take a counter-offer. In my experience, there is usually some wriggling in the details saying that you will not leave the position until a set date, which may or may not be legal nowadays.taig wrote:** spoiler omitted **
When I accept an offer, there is generally no counter offer I will accept - because they are aware I was looking, and ready to leave. And I assume they will pay to keep me because they think that they will need more than two weeks to replace me, and they would rather lose me on their terms...nevermind I'm then without any job opportunities. Because that's not their problem.
I might be cynical and jaded, though. :(
Maybe. But my wife took the firm that first hired her up on a counter-offer when she told them she had an offer from PWC, and I think she she is much happier than she would have been had she left. ::Shrugs::
Freehold DM |
Aaand it looks like I've caught up with all 300 plus posts I missed. Yesterday was...well, a trial. Found out at the game I attend in manhattan bi-weekly that a good friend of mine's little brother passed away suddenly of a heart attack that was brought on by the flu. He was only 26- younger than all of us. I will be going to my friend's house today to see if there is anything I can do- I doubt I can make the funeral tomorrow, as it is during my work hours, but I will be sitting shiva with him probably a bit on Wednesday(have to go to the second job, I can't get out of either job I don't think due to the fact that I was on vacation recently), Thursday, and a bit on Friday(second job again later on in the evening). Also discovered at the game that the DM and one of the players will be moving away to California and Pennsylvania respectively. And I only JUST found out that one loves Final Fantasy 7 and the other loves Buffy!! How can I possibly squeeze in untold months of Haterade(tm) into the time before they leave? I'll try...but they warned me that I or my character may end up badly beaten on a lonely road somewhere...Ack. I'm trying to inject humor into places to keep myself from becoming overly maudlin, but its failing moreso than succeeding. Meh.
Studpuffin |
Studpuffin wrote:Met my first g/f up at Stephens in Missouri. T'was nice.Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:You should move up to Missouri. Our grass is green year round.Don't get me started on lawn chymicules.
BLARG!!!!And why is everybody in Texas so stoked to do lawn work? It SHOULD be brown by July. It's nature, man.
Is that out near Columbia? That's in the middle of the state... a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Everyone knows the outskirts of a state are it's best parts. :)
Jess Door |
Aaand it looks like I've caught up with all 300 plus posts I missed. Yesterday was...well, a trial. Found out at the game I attend in manhattan bi-weekly that a good friend of mine's little brother passed away suddenly of a heart attack that was brought on by the flu. He was only 26- younger than all of us. I will be going to my friend's house today to see if there is anything I can do- I doubt I can make the funeral tomorrow, as it is during my work hours, but I will be sitting shiva with him probably a bit on Wednesday(have to go to the second job, I can't get out of either job I don't think due to the fact that I was on vacation recently), Thursday, and a bit on Friday(second job again later on in the evening). Also discovered at the game that the DM and one of the players will be moving away to California and Pennsylvania respectively. And I only JUST found out that one loves Final Fantasy 7 and the other loves Buffy!! How can I possibly squeeze in untold months of Haterade(tm) into the time before they leave? I'll try...but they warned me that I or my character may end up badly beaten on a lonely road somewhere...Ack. I'm trying to inject humor into places to keep myself from becoming overly maudlin, but its failing moreso than succeeding. Meh.
Aw, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that. :(
Treppa |
I will be going to my friend's house today to see if there is anything I can do- I doubt I can make the funeral tomorrow, as it is during my work hours, but I will be sitting shiva with him probably a bit on Wednesday(have to go to the second job, I can't get out of either job I don't think due to the fact that I was on vacation recently), Thursday, and a bit on Friday(second job again later on in the evening).
Being there for him will mean the world, Freehold, even if he can't communicate it now.
Studpuffin |
Studpuffin wrote:Pudstuffin wrote:Tooki-Tooki ca-kaw ca-KAW!Careful...Can't.....resist.....must.....not....
S-Q-Q-Q-U-A-A-A-K!
if it's really buggin ya let me know and I'll stop, just playin' around.
Nah, just saying be careful. You can bird call all you want. The alias was always a little gross. I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :P
Celestial Healer |
Jess Door wrote:Again, in my experience, good salesman very rarely equals good businessman.taig wrote:Jess Door wrote:taig wrote:** spoiler omitted **
When I accept an offer, there is generally no counter offer I will accept - because they are aware I was looking, and ready to leave. And I assume they will pay to keep me because they think that they will need more than two weeks to replace me, and they would rather lose me on their terms...nevermind I'm then without any job opportunities. Because that's not their problem.
I might be cynical and jaded, though. :(
I understand that. I took a counteroffer once, and I regretted it, but at that time I wanted to leave the company and I really should have just walked away.
In this situation, I am contracting, and I had communicated my desire to go full time, and my boss was searching for ways to make that happen. I think he thought he had more time, since my 12-month contract (which was up at the end of May) was extremely likely to get renewed for 6 months. I didn't communicate anything to my boss about looking until I turned in my notice, which is how I would have approached things if I was already full-time.
Bleh.
Yeah, my only experience with a similar situation was with a boss that was repeatedly hiring people, only to fire them months later to hire personal friends. I was useful to the company - I had training and knowledge no one else had, and was doing some intense customer facing work at the moment - but I was under no illusion that my position was stable.
The owner was an excellent salesman. Not necessarily a good businessman, but his ability to talk people into things let him limp along despite some crazy decistions (let's focus on the $2000 customer to the detriment of the $500,000 customer!).
I see you are familiar with my company.
Justin Franklin |
Pudstuffin wrote:Nah, just saying be careful. You can bird call all you want. The alias was always a little gross. I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :PStudpuffin wrote:Pudstuffin wrote:Tooki-Tooki ca-kaw ca-KAW!Careful...Can't.....resist.....must.....not....
S-Q-Q-Q-U-A-A-A-K!
if it's really buggin ya let me know and I'll stop, just playin' around.
Maybe we need a "Killer Puffins from Outer Space" thread.
Studpuffin |
Studpuffin wrote:Maybe we need a "Killer Puffins from Outer Space" thread.Pudstuffin wrote:Nah, just saying be careful. You can bird call all you want. The alias was always a little gross. I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :PStudpuffin wrote:Pudstuffin wrote:Tooki-Tooki ca-kaw ca-KAW!Careful...Can't.....resist.....must.....not....
S-Q-Q-Q-U-A-A-A-K!
if it's really buggin ya let me know and I'll stop, just playin' around.
We come from France [/coneheads]
I can already see the jokes about space peckers. O_o
Corrosive Rabbit |
I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :P
That's why I stick to "Scruffpuffin" on the occasions that I feel the need to typo satirically.
Freehold DM |
Pudstuffin wrote:Nah, just saying be careful. You can bird call all you want. The alias was always a little gross. I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :PStudpuffin wrote:Pudstuffin wrote:Tooki-Tooki ca-kaw ca-KAW!Careful...Can't.....resist.....must.....not....
S-Q-Q-Q-U-A-A-A-K!
if it's really buggin ya let me know and I'll stop, just playin' around.
gigglesnort Pudstuffin!!!!!!!
Although now I want to see you dressed up as a weird Penguin/Joker hybrid and Treppa dressed up as Harley and have her call you Stuffpuddin'.
Justin Franklin |
Studpuffin wrote:I get called that in chat from time to time by the less that reputable characters there... they know who they are, but the name has always struck me as much more gross than it actually sounds. Pudstuffin, Stuffpuddin, Snuffpuffin... yeah, they're not exactly classy... :PThat's why I stick to "Scruffpuffin" on the occasions that I feel the need to typo satirically.
What about PtudSuffin?
taig RPG Superstar 2012 |